Transportation

What’s not to love about super small form factor computers? The VoomPC-2 delivers the price that many other small form factor PCs havn’t been able to do yet. Unfortunately, it has to skimp on the features to do so. Luckly, they aren’t trying to sell this product for home media center usage. Their target market is the mid/high end car ...

This week’s retro rewind delves through various levels of pop-culture through the 80’s. No doubt the De Lorean was best known for its role as the time machine from the Back To The Future movies. Did Michael J. Fox or Christopher Lloyd ever think that the Delorean would become a cultural trademark after the movie was made? Who the hell ...

Somewhere between a standing arch and a boat-plane, without the plane, the WAM-V is one odd looking vehicle. The MAR (Marine Advanced Research), based out of California displays this “adaptive wave” rider to the public, knowing it’s like nothing most of us have ever seen. The Proteus is the largest of a fleet of WAM-Vs (Wave Adaptive Modular Vessel) that ...

At the Detroit Auto Show Dodge was showing off their 600-horsepower Viper right in the center of their booth. However, that wasn’t the best one. Near the back of the booth Dodge had a little secret: the Dodge Viper SRT-10 Mopar concept. It seems that Dodge wanted to 1-up itself and pack more into a car that was already packing ...

We have seen hybrid cars for a while, now we have hybrid bikes. These new Yamaha bikes can store up energy in a Lithium battery when you are cycling, and helps you by releasing power when you are going upslope. This is all done by sophisticated sensors, and by not helping you at all when it detects that you are ...

Venturi has announced its concept car, for now named Eclectic. A fully self-sufficient and autonomous energy vehicle that gets fuel from only natural occuring processes. The solar, wind, and electric powered Eclectic is being designed to make hybrid cars look like a truck with a broken exhaust pipe in comparison. With its 2.5 meters of photovoltaic cells, at least one ...

Harman Kardon is known for its excellent audio equipment, so when they came out with the Guide + Play GPS-500 navigation system, some people were surprised. They were not trying to go all out with this player; it�s about equal with many other GPS systems out on the market. It can play audio and video, has a 4GB SD card, ...

Who knows what Ford was thinking when they decided to design a car based on the old Airstream trailers, but they came out with the Airstream Concept anyways? This car is powered by a plug-in hydrogen fuel cell system call HySeries Drive. What�s ironic, however, is that Ford is actually going to use an electric motor as the main power ...

Let�s get it out there first that a few years back Jeep unveiled a concept called the Hurricane, which allowed all 4 wheels to turn independently, and that never hit production; we�ll se how this one goes. Anyways, Jeep�s new Trailhawk is looking to bridge the gap between their Jeep Wrangler unlimited and their Cherokee. The Trailhawk is meant to ...

When JVC was working on the KD-NX5000, they were thinking about how to get the bragging rights for best in-car receiver. Where do we begin? Well, it is a DVD/CD receiver with a 3.5 inch monitor, so when you�re in your car you can watch your favorite LOTR (when you�re parked of course). JVC couldn�t leave out a superb navigation ...